· 8/20/2014
City of Greenville, Illinois v. Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
Citations
- 764 F.3d 695
- 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 16152
- 2014 WL 4092255
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- acknowledging that the Seventh Circuit has “limited the presumption of public access to materials that affect judicial decisions”
- explaining that “litigants who enjoy publicly subsidized dispute resolution should expect public oversight”
- presumption that court documents are public can be rebutted if the records contain trade secrets or “if a statute, rule, or privilege justifies confidentiality”
- presumption that court documents are public can be rebutted if the records contain trade secrets or “if a statute, rule, or privilege justifies confidentiality”
- the public has no right to access documents that “cannot conceivably aid the understanding of judicial decision making”
- the public has no right to access documents that “cannot conceivably aid the understanding of judicial decisionmaking”
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Judges: Wood, Easterbrook, Hamilton
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